If you want to separate yourself from the pack of photographers, mastering artificial light has always been one of the best ways to get ahead. When I started twenty years ago, the photojournalists who knew how to light portraits and complicated subject material were always the ones who won c...

I no longer own any laptops. Everything in our house is a tablet: multiple Nexus 7s, multiple iPad 4s, and a Surface Pro. In fact, the only traditional computers I own are my triple-monitor desktop home office beast, and the small Home Theater PC (HTPC) that drives all our home entertainment in...

The last time I was up visiting my mom and sister in Oklahoma City, mom sent me home with a 'vintage' brass lamp. I grew up with this lamp and now the brass was spotted and discolored. I like to think that I've aged better than the lamp. I offered it to Jeff when he was home and he assured me th...

Hello! I hope you all had a great last couple of weeks of Summer vacation. We've been working on a few projects around the house. The first one is our living room television cabinet. For the past three months we've been looking at our television inside a big plaster box. We have finally deci...